5-Day Sri Lanka Cultural and Wildlife Tour with Hot-Air Balloon

• Get picked up from the airport and then drive to Negombo.

• Visit the largest fish market and relax on the beach.

Stay overnight in Negombo.

• Drive to Kandy and visit the Royal Botanical Garden, which is filled with colourful flowering plants, herbal plants, endemic and epidemic plant species, and palm family trees. Altogether, more than 4,000 varieties can be seen here.

• Enjoy a Kandyan dancing event in the evening from 5.00 pm to 6.00 pm.

• Visit the Temple of the Tooth Relic, where the most sacred molar tooth of Lord Buddha is placed in seven golden caskets under a golden ceiling.

Spend the night in Kandy.

• Get picked up before 8.00 am from your residence in Kandy and drive straight to Sri Muththu Mari Amman (kovil) Hindu temple, the tallest and most colourful Hindu temple in the country.

• Travel to Dambulla Cave Temple, the largest and best-preserved cave temple in Sri Lanka. The caves were converted into a temple complex by King Walagamba during the 1st century. There are about 153 Buddha statues and murals covering 2,100 square meters. You will need around one and a half hours to cover the entire temple complex.

• Visit Sigiriya Lion Rock, which contains huge walls, water canals, security guard rooms, natural stone arches, mirror stone, and the world-famous Sigiri paintings. It is an isolated rock kingdom more than 200 m in height. You will need to spend more than two and a half hours here.

Stay overnight in Sigiriya.

Remarkable tourist activities in Sigiriya also include village tours to experience ancient village life and day-to-day activities, including oxen cart rides, catamaran rides, walks through paddy fields, and cookery demonstrations of traditional Sri Lankan food, followed by a traditional meal.

• Begin the hot-air balloon ride. Admire the sunrise and fly over the jungle, geographical beauties, lakes, wildlife habitats, and ancient villages. Dambulla is an iconic place that offers safe and enjoyable hot-air balloon rides under the supervision of an internationally recognized institution with well-qualified and skilful staff. The pilot will guide you for a safe and enjoyable ride throughout the flying hour.

• Travel to Wilpattu National Park and start the safari at 2.00 pm.

Stay overnight in Wilpattu.

• Get dropped back at the airport according to your flight departure time.